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(N0 MadeL) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. B. OVERMAN 8: W. H. OOONN'OR.

SKYLIGHT.

No. 315,958. Patented Apr. 14, 1885.

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SKYLIGHT. 6

No. 815,958 Patented Apr. 14, 1885 i rilTED Srn rns ATENT rains.

BERNARD OVERMAN AND KVILLIAM H. OGONNOR', QF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA; SAID OCONNOR ASSIGNOR TO WARREN M.

\VHYTE, OF SAME PLACE.

SKYLIGHT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,958, date-d April 14:, 1885.

Application liled May 17, 1682.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, BERNARD Ovnnrmn and XVILLIAM H. O CONNOR, of Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Skylights; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of our bar and cap separated from each other. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same as combined, and Fig. 3 is a crosssection of two bars as arranged in position and used for supporting plates of glass.

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The design of our invention is to produce a skylight-bar in which a maximum of strength is combined with a minimum of weight, and in which the joints between the glass and metal shall be water-tight, and suitable provision made for collecting and disposing of any water which may leak through the same; to which end it consists, principally, in a bar having two drip-gutters separated by means of an intermediate vertical web, and having their outer edges extended outward horizontally and then upward, to form supports for glass plates, in combination with a cap that embraces the upper portion of and is secured to said web, and is provided with bearings which extend laterally over the glass plates and correspond to the ledges of said gutters,

substantially as and for the purpose hereina after specified.

It consists, further, in combining with the drip-gutters on each side of the web, having their outer edges extended laterally outward, the molding placed beneath the same, and having its upper edges extended laterally outward, and embraced by downward and iiiward turned outerfp ortions of the gutter-edges, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter described.

It consists, finally, in the hereinafter-described bar composed of the vertical web, the gutters on each side thereofihaving their outer (No model.)

edges extended outward horizontally and then upward, and the molding B, in combination with theglass plates and cap, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter set forth.

In the annexed drawings, A and A represent two gutters which are formed from one sheet of metal, and are separated by means of a web, a, that extends upward to a considerable distance, and is produced by folding together the central portion of said sheet. At the outer side of each gutter the metal extends laterally outward, and thence slightly upward, so as to form a ledge, a, the outer edge of which is slightly higher than the upper face of said ledge.

Below the gutters A is a molding, B, which from its lower edge to the lower outer corners of said gutters has a V shape, and from thence upward follows the line of said gutters and the lower face of the ledges c, against which latter said molding is secured by means of the downward and inward turned edges of the plates composing the same.

The parts thus combined form our bar-,which is placed in the position it is to occupy, and the upper concave face of each ledge a is covered with putty or cement. Plates of glass 0 are then laid with their edges resting upon the latter, and, finally, the whole is made water-tight by means of a cap. D, which has the form shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and closely embraces the web a, and has laterally-extend ing side edges, (2, that correspond to but are the reverse of said ledges a.

The laterally-projecting side edges or bearings, d, of the cap D are concave, and each receives and contains sufficient putty or cem cut to produce between the same and the glass 0 a water-tight joint, as in case of the bearings below said glass. After said cap is in place rivets are passed through its vertical portion and through the web a, firmly uniting said parts and materially increasing the strength and rigidity of the bar.

Should openings occur in the joints between the glass and bar, either from defective workmanship or from accident, water passing through said openings will be received by the gutters, an d by the same will be safely conveyed 5 new is 1. Abar having two drip-gutters separated by means of an intermediate vertical web, and having their outer edges extended outward horizontally, and then upward to form sup- 10 ports for glass plates, in combination with a cap that embraces the upper portion of and is secured to said web, and is provided with bearings which extend laterally over the glass plates and correspond to the ledges of said I 5 gutters, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. In combination with the drip-gutters A A on each side of the web at, having their outer edges extended laterally outward, the mold- 2o ing B, placed beneath the same, and having its upper edges extended laterally'outward and embraced by downward: and inward turned outer portions of the gutter-edges, substantially as and for the purpose described.

8. The hereinbefore-described bar, composed 25 of the vertical web a, the gutters A A on each side thereof, having their outer edges extended outward horizontally and then upward, and the molding 'B, in combination with the glass plates 0 and cap D, substantially as and 30 for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 13th day of May, 1882. v

I B. OVERMAN.

W. H. OGONNOR.

WVitnesses:

J. "I. GoLDWELL, GEO. S. PRINDLE. 

